well getting silver isnt like getting bronze. its worst when you get get silver because it means you had a very close chance to get gold. bronze however is a also upseting but it isnt as close as silver.

I seen a picture of a 50 year old looking dude, pressing his foot down against a 7 year old Chinese girls knees, till they are bent in a way that's preferable. She was crying hysterically, and the trainer just had the coldest look in his eyes..

Oh, and child abuse is common in China. Most kids there get beat simply because their parents had a ****** day.

dude tell me about it. im indian and my parents beat different colors of **** out of me whenever they ******* wanted. im 19 right now and i still get threatened by my dad but if he touches me, i will kick his ******* ass. i dont know if i went through child abuse but i never deserved the treatment i was given. the worst part is, they pretend it never happened. So you can see why it kills me inside when I see kids being treated like animals.

In China small young athletes are trained to think that their mission in life is to defeat the westerners. So if say, an American got gold and the Chinese person got silver, that would feel pretty ******.

They're pissed off because if they get gold, their country buys them a house that they own for life, and they give them a very large pension, but also they bring dishonour to their famirys, and their children get hung from a tree in their garden.

Dude. It's a joke about China has to compete on the highest lvl. And it's a really old joke as well, it's getting used all the time. I don't understand why you would call me stupid for believing in it. Of course I don't. Now I'll say the same to you: Are you stupid enough to actually believe that I'm not joking?

People who are saying it's because they're from China are full of ****. It's a psychological thing that happens to most Olympic competitive athletes. If you get silver, you just barely didn't get the gold. If you get bronze, you at least got a medal unlike the guy behind you. This is especially effective in events that involve one team facing the other. The team that loses the gold medal game lost their final game. The team that wins the bronze medal game won their final game.

No sure why you got reds, because that is correct in cases.
But you can't forget that with China, a country with a population of over 1.3 billion, just under a fifth of the world's population, where being a successful athlete means the difference between eating and starving.

In the UK if you earn a gold medal in the Olympics you're made for life, and with silver/bronze medals you will still be wealthy and remembered.

In China I doubt one gold on it's own even gets you much recognition because of the sheer amount they get. And I'm sure as far as the Government and people are concerned, you're a gold medal athlete or nothing.

Tom Daley was so happy with his bronze because hes only 18 years old and hes had a rough year with his father dying. I believe hes extremely happy because of everything hes overcome and finally won a medal and it proves he has a great future ahead of him